Quotes About Sustainability

Even as a child, I felt very guilty about eating animals and never knew that there was something to do about it. And as I got older, it became clearer that there are things that I can do and choices I can make.

My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.

Our seas do have fish in them. We have to change our eating habits, the type of fish we tend to go for. Pollack is fine, that type of thing.

I'm most excited about people being more conscious about their eating habits.

I think that if Haiti is not self-sufficient in food, it is because we have stopped working.

There is no shortcut to the development of Haiti.

The flavour of something fresh out of the ground is 10 times better than something that's been flown halfway across the world.

In my view, the biggest challenge facing this country is that we are not living within our means. Spending cuts can only get us halfway there.

The true cost to the world of a burger is far greater than the money you hand over to buy it.

Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.

In TIME June 7, 2010 On the sustainability of the publishing industry, in the Chicago Tribune: I think that book publishing is about to slide into the sea. We live in a literate time, and our children are writing up a storm, often combining letters and numbers.... The future of publishing: 18 million authors in America, each with an average of 14 readers, eight of whom are blood relatives. Average annual earnings: $175. - 5/26/10

home prices don't rise as fast or as much as Americans think, and even when they do, such levels are rarely sustainable (as we have seen in recent years). So there is often no financial justification for buying more house than you can afford in the hope that price hikes will reward you later.

In the house of the wise are stores of choice food and oil, but a foolish man devours all he has" (Proverbs 21:20, NIV).

Everything was green, so green it went into him.

We all receive, every day, the gifts of the Deep World, from the air we breathe to the food we eat

We can no longer think that the fate of humanity and that of the nonhuman world are independent of each other

On all levels, from national to local, the need to move toward steady state economy — equilibrium, dynamic balance, inner growth stressed — must be taught.

Il movimento bioregionale non è solamente un programma rurale: vale anche come progetto di restaurazione della vita nei quartieri delle città e del loro ritorno ad essere più verdi.

Most jobs I've had have been variations on hunter-gatherer and farmer. I was one of the first to say Hey, if we grow our own food, we won't have to hunt it down all the time. Mostly, I was just tired of moving around constantly, but you have to admit it was a pretty good idea.)

Think of a tree that splits a rock. It gathers water, the sun's life-bringing heat … and all the stuff of life for its own use. In time it dies and rots to dress the earth, that its own roots have made from stone. Its shadow gone, fresh seeds spring up; in time a forest flourishes where it stood.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Wealth, like a tree, grows from a tiny seed

there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use everything up. It's what I think to myself sometimes, as there need nobody run short o' victuals if the land was made the most on, and there was never a morsel but what could find it's way to a mouth.